East Side Airlines (w/ Yemzo Katana)

In February 2020, Bethnal Green’s brand new air travel service, East Side Airlines, was introduced to you by pilots ‘Yemzo K’ and ‘Yung Sultan’. Bringing together a high-intensity grime beat and an authentic approach to storytelling, the two artists take us on a journey around the streets of East London. The back and forth lyricism between Razak and Katana feed into their strong chemistry on this track whilst being backed by Katana’s signature, intrusive bass lines and roaring synths. With themes of dual identity and youth, the stories of these two British South Asian artists are told in a whirlwind of wheel-ups and descending sitar scales. A music video was released in April 2020 with footage shot from late January.